Po koncercie słychać głośne oklaski.

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Breakdown of Po koncercie słychać głośne oklaski.

• po: after
• koncert: the concert
• oklaski: the applause

Questions & Answers about Po koncercie słychać głośne oklaski.

Why is it po koncercie and not something like po koncert or po koncertu?

The preposition po normally takes the locative case when it means after (in time) or on / over (in space).

• The noun koncert in the locative singular is koncercie.
• So po koncercie literally means after the concert (in time) or on the concert (in a very abstract sense), but in practice it is just “after the concert”.

Forms like po koncert or po koncertu are simply ungrammatical with this meaning, because they are not locative.

What exactly does słychać mean, and why isn’t there any subject like one can hear or it is heard?

Słychać is an impersonal verb form that roughly means one can hear / it is audible / it can be heard.

• It doesn’t need (and normally doesn’t take) an explicit subject.
• The structure słychać + [object] literally says that something is being heard, without saying who hears it.

So Po koncercie słychać głośne oklaski is best understood as After the concert, loud applause can be heard or Loud applause is heard after the concert, with no expressed subject.

How is słychać different from słyszeć and słuchać? They all look similar.